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"If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics."
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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
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"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
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"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."
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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."
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"Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."
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"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable, the latter is not."
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"Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very moment you discover that there is something called "knowledge"!"
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Man
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
Death
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
Age
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
Experience
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
Imagination
"With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me."
Life
"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
Happiness
"Art is a delayed echo."
Art
"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."
Friendship
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